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The Irish medical profession and the First World War / David Durnin.

Durnin, David, author.
2019
D629.I73
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Title
The Irish medical profession and the First World War / David Durnin.
Author
Durnin, David, author.
ISBN
9783030179595 (electronic book)
3030179591 (electronic book)
9783030179588
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
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D629.I73
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.475415
Summary
This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. It assesses the extent of its involvement in the conflict while also interrogating the effect of global war on the development of Ireland's domestic medical infrastructure, especially its hospital network. The study explores the factors that encouraged Ireland's medical personnel to join the British Army medical services and uncovers how Irish hospital governors, in the face of increasing staff shortages and economic inflation, ensured that Ireland's voluntary hospital network survived the war. It also considers how Ireland's wartime doctors reintegrated into an Irish society that had experienced a profound shift in political opinion towards their involvement in the conflict and subsequently became embroiled in its own Civil War. In doing so, this book provides the first comprehensive study of the effect of the First World War on the medical profession in Ireland.
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Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Medical Organisations in the First World War; Chapter 2 Recruitment and Irish Medical Personnel, 1914-1918; Early Recruitment Campaigns; 1916 and the Decline in Enlistment; Conscription, Regulation and Dissension; Medical Recruitment in the Final Years of War; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Irish Medical Personnel: Motivations and Wartime Experiences, 1914-1918; Motivations; Social Profile; Religion and Education; The Experiences of Irish Medical Personnel in the First World War; 1916 Rising

ConclusionChapter 4 The First World War and Hospitals in Ireland, 1914-1918; Casualty Evacuation System, 1914-1916; Irish Military Hospitals; Civilian Hospitals, 1914-1916; Specialist Hospitals; Civilian Hospitals, 1917-1918; Civilian Patients; Conclusion; Chapter 5 British Army Medical Personnel in Post-war Ireland, 1918-1925; Medical Demobilisation; The Return of Ireland's British Army Doctors, 1918-1925; Political Change in Ireland; Ex-British Army Doctors and Conflict in Ireland; Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918-1925

Post-war Reconstruction of Military Medical CareCivilian Hospitals; The Impact of Conflict in Ireland on Hospitals, 1919-1923; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Conclusions; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index

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